Departmental Consultants

Mark Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what contracts were awarded by his Department to  (a) KPMG,  (b) PricewaterhouseCoopers,  (c) Ernst and Young,  (d) McKinsey,  (e) Deloitte and  (f) other consultancy firms in each of the last 12 months; and what the (i) purpose and (ii) value was of each of these contracts.

David Cairns: No payments were made to these Companies and other firms for consultancy work during 2006-07.

Departmental Plants

Mark Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent on pot plants in each of the last five years.

Angela Eagle: For information on 2006-07 I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by the former Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Healey), on 7 November 2006,  Official Report, column 1022W. For information on 2005-06 I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Philip Hamilton) on 2 May 2007,  Official Report, column 1743W. Information on earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Economic Situation

Michael Meacher: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to contribute to  (a) tackling the turbulence in the international financial markets and  (b) preventing such crises in future.

Angela Eagle: holding answer 18 March 2008
	On 30 January 2008 the Treasury, Bank of England and the FSA published the consultation paper "Financial stability and depositor protection: strengthening the framework". It includes proposals related to strengthening the stability and resilience of international financial markets and preventing crises in the future. The Government have also taken actions to address problems in the markets for mortgage backed securities (MBS). On 6 March the Government introduced new regulations for covered bonds, which will increase the pool of potential investors and strengthen market confidence in the longer term. The Government announced at Budget a Working Group that will take forward market initiatives to improve liquidity in the MBS market. Financial market turbulence has been global and also demands a global response. That is why the Government support, and is heavily involved in, the ED and G7 work programmes aimed at improving the stability and resilience of the financial system for the future.

Home Energy Efficiency Scheme

Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much has been paid to firms involved in the WarmFront scheme.

Phil Woolas: Warm Front spend since the scheme's inception in 2000 is outlined as following:
	
		
			  Scheme year  Approximate total spend/budget (£ million) 
			 2000-01 72 
			 2001-02 197 
			 2002-03 163 
			 2003-04 164 
			 2004-05 166 
			 2005-06 192 
			 2006-07 320 
			 2007-08 350

Home Energy Efficiency Scheme

Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what procedures are in place to ensure that work carried out by contractors for the WarmFront scheme is done by qualified staff.

Phil Woolas: Installers working on Warm Front must hold current qualifications to professionally recognised standards, such as Corgi, NICEIC and BBA, and as a minimum must carry £10 million Employers and £3 million Public/Products Insurance liability cover.
	Installers are audited twice yearly on operational, financial and health and safety practises, which include random checks of works carried out and the qualifications of persons who undertake them.

Thermal Insulation: Housing

Michael Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment his Department has made of feasible methods of insulating hard-to-treat homes; and if he will make a statement.

Phil Woolas: Finding innovative, cost effective and attractive ways of insulating hard to treat homes will be core to both our carbon saving and fuel poverty alleviation ambitions. To inform policy development and stimulate market transformation:
	we commissioned a study from the Building Research Establishment to look at the extent of hard to treat homes in England and to consider different technical options for treating them. Part one of the study (on the extent) has already been published with the second part to be published in the summer;
	we included an innovation ring-fence and flexibility option under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target to allow suppliers to trial more expensive measures—we expect 150,000 households to benefit from Solid Wall Insulation under CERT;
	we are providing the Energy Saving Trust with £1 million under the Environmental Transformation Fund to support market research into several innovative efficiency products, including the development and field trials of alternative forms of solid wall insulation, and;
	Warm Front, the Government's main programme for eradicating fuel poverty in vulnerable households, has mechanisms in place to locate and assess the suitability of alternative technologies for use in the scheme, with a particular emphasis on those that could potentially provide solutions for hard-to-treat properties. As part of this process, we are currently piloting solar thermal units in off-gas property.

Departmental Sustainable Development

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when his Department plans to publish its sustainable operations policy statement.

Shaun Woodward: My Department has aligned itself with the NI Sustainable Development Strategy and Implementation Plan, launched by the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, in 2006, and now being taken forward by the NI Executive.
	The NI Executive is currently carrying out a review of its approach to Sustainable Development and as part of that process has asked Departments to revise their policy statements. The NIO is revising its policy statement and when this exercise is completed we will place a copy of the new statement on the NIO website and in the House of Commons Library.

Departmental Video Conferencing

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will set a target to increase the use of video-conferencing by his Department to reduce the need to travel to meetings.

Shaun Woodward: My Department makes regular use of the video conference facilities it has in its offices in Belfast and London. These facilities are capable of handling multi person meetings and therefore significantly reduce the level of travelling required between both locations. Staff are actively encouraged to use these facilities to reduce travel cost and save time. The possibility of a VCR meeting is always considered before travel is approved.
	The amount of travel undertaken fluctuates depending on business pressures at the time, and some meetings can only be effectively undertaken face to face, therefore I do not believe it is possible to set targets in this area.
	The NIO participates in the DEFRA-managed Government Carbon Off-setting Scheme which offsets the carbon emissions from ministerial and official air travel.

Training: Elderly

John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many people aged over 50 years took up training schemes offered through his Department in Easington constituency in each of the last five years.

Bill Rammell: I have been asked to reply.
	The following table shows the total number of learners aged 50 and over in Easington constituency for the latest five years for which information is available (numbers have been rounded).
	
		
			  LSC funded adult learners (on further education provision, Train to Gain and Adult and Community Learning) 
			  Academic year  Number 
			 2002-03 1,740 
			 2003-04 2,170 
			 2004-05 2,370 
			 2005-06 1,920 
			 2006-07 1,350 
		
	
	Overall Government investment in the further education sector has increased by 52 per cent. in real terms between 1997 and 2007. Participation funding for adults will increase to around £3.6 billion in 2010-11, an increase of over 17 per cent. compared with 2007-08.
	We have continued to realign funding towards basic literacy and numeracy, full level 2 and full level 3 qualifications providing skills for employment and further progression in learning away from, for example, very short or low quality courses. This has enabled us to support significant increases in participation for young people and adults in these key programmes, providing them with the education and skills they need to fully participate in an economically successful and socially cohesive society.
	This Department and the LSC are working closely with the Department of Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus to implement the proposals outlined in "World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England" and the Green Paper: "In Work, better off," both published in July this year. These include supporting individuals, including older workers into sustainable employment and progression in work and in skills.
	In line with this we are working with employers through Train to Gain and the Skills Pledge to meet skill needs and to ensure that all employees including older people have the basic skills, including literacy and numeracy and Level 2 skills (equivalent to five good GCSEs) needed to sustain and progress in employment. To support this we are increasing funding for Train to Gain from £440 million in 2007-08 to over £900 million in 2010-11. We want to encourage all employers in England to make a Skills Pledge that is a specific promise that every eligible employee will be helped to gain basic skills, and a full Level 2 qualification.
	We recognise the importance of FE and adult learning in meeting a range of social and community needs and remain fully committed to ensuring that older learners can benefit from a wide range of learning opportunities, including learning for its own sake, for personal fulfilment and to sustain an active role in the community. In addition we have committed £210 million per annum until 2010-11 to safeguard learning opportunities for personal fulfilment, community development and active citizenship.

Arrests

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  on what occasions the police have arrested an individual  (a) on an aircraft at a UK airport and  (b) at the airport after an individual has landed in the last 10 years;
	(2)  on how many occasions police in the course of their duty have been denied access to an aircraft at an airport in the UK in the last 10 years;
	(3)  what powers the police have to prevent an aircraft from taking off from a UK airport in order to effect an arrest.

Tony McNulty: The statistical information requested is not held centrally.
	In England Wales, section 17 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 provides that a constable may enter and search any premises, including aircraft, for the purpose of executing a warrant or to arrest a person for an indictable offence. In Northern Ireland, Article 19(1)(b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 provides a constable with the power to enter and search any premises, including aircraft, for the purposes of affecting an arrest of a person for an indictable offence. In Scotland if a constable has grounds to believe that a crime has been committed anywhere within an airport, including an aircraft which has landed and is stationed at a terminal, they can investigate in the same way as for any other crime committed elsewhere within their force area.
	Arrest may also be made under European or international warrant. In addition, the Manual of Air Traffic Services enables the police to instruct air traffic controllers to withhold permission for an aircraft to take off.

Demonstrations: Parliament Square

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many  (a) males and  (b) females, broken down by age group, were (i) arrested, (ii) prosecuted and (iii) convicted of unlawful public demonstrations in Parliament Square in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Tony McNulty: Data showing the number of males and females, by age group, proceeded against and found guilty of organising or carrying out a demonstration in a designated area in 2005 and 2006 are found in the following table. The Ministry of Justice are unable to separate offences committed in Parliament Square from those committed in other locations within the designated area.
	The Home Office does not collect the information requested on arrests centrally. However I understand from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police that since Section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 came into force until the end of December 2006, there have been 91 arrests of individuals for a range of offences connected to demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament. Data on the number of arrests in 2007 is not available.
	
		
			  Number of males and females, by age group, proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty of organising, taking part in or carrying out a demonstration in a designated area( 1) , England and Wales, 2005 to 2006( 2,3,4,5) 
			   2005  2006 
			  Sex and age  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Proceeded against  Found guilty 
			  Male 
			 10 to 11 — — — — 
			 12 to 14 — — — — 
			 15 to 17 1 — 1 1 
			 18 to 20 — — 2 1 
			 21 and over 5 — 13 11 
			 Total 6 — 16 13 
			  
			  Female 
			 10 to 11 — — — — 
			 12 to 14 — — — — 
			 15 to 17 — — — — 
			 18 to 20 — — — — 
			 21 and over 1 1 6 5 
			 Total 1 1 6 5 
			  
			 Total 7 1 22 18 
			 (1) (a) The designated area includes Parliament Square and other locations within the Westminster area - as detailed in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, Designated Area Order (No 1537). (2) These data are on the principal offence basis. (3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (4) The above data covers the following statutes: Section 132(1)(a),(b) and (c), Section 136(1) and (2) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. (5) The above named Act came into force on 7 April 2005.

Police: Finance

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effect of changes in the level of crime on the police funding formula in each of the last 10 years.

Tony McNulty: The police funding formula uses a range of data relating to demographic and social characteristics, which is heavily weighted by changes in population, to allocate grant and reflect the relative needs of each police authority.
	Changes in the level of crime are not factored into the police funding formula when calculating grant allocations per se, as to do so, would create perverse incentives for police authorities and forces.

Police: Finance

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how changes in population are taken into account when calculating the total resource allocation formula for police forces.

Tony McNulty: The police funding formula uses a range of data relating to demographic and social characteristics, which is heavily weighted by changes in population, to allocate grant and reflect the relative needs of each police authority.
	When calculating formula grant allocations, the best information available at the time that treats all authorities on a consistent basis is used. Population data is provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Income Support: Lone Parents

Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone parents in receipt of income support in the most recent period for which figures are available had  (a) one,  (b) two,  (c) three,  (d) four and  (e) five or more children.

James Plaskitt: holding answer 26 March 2008
	The requested information is in the following table.
	
		
			  Number of children in lone parent families in receipt of income support in Great Britain 
			  Number of children  Lone parents in receipt of income support 
			  All claimants 765,630 
			 One child 351,820 
			 Two children 246,700 
			 Three children 110,410 
			 Four children 39,690 
			 Five or more children 17,000 
			  Notes: 1. Lone parents are defined as single claimants with children under 16 and not receiving incapacity benefits. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.  3. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 4. Data is to May 2007.  Source: 100 per cent DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

Armed Forces: Influenza

Andrew Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to paragraph 15 of the Defence Medical Services Department's policy letter of 20 January 2006, entitled The use of influenza vaccines and anti-virals in the event of an influenza pandemic by the Defence Medical Services, reference DMSD/13/1/4; whether he has any plans to use anti-virals for prophylaxis before a pandemic is established; and if he will make a statement.

Derek Twigg: MOD's policy on the use of vaccines and antivirals with regard to an influenza pandemic follows the Department of Health's national guidelines. For the majority of armed forces personnel there are no plans for prophylactic use, as this is not in accordance with the UK national policy.

Armed Forces: Pay

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the average pay for soldiers at each rank was in each year since 1997.

Bob Ainsworth: The following table provides tri-service estimates of average annual basic pay by rank for each year since 1997.
	
		
			  Estimate of average annual salary( 1)  by NATO rank( 2) 
			   NATO rank 
			   OR9  OR8  OR7  OR6  OR4  OR3  OR2  OR1( 3) 
			 1997-98 26,800 24,800 23,400 20,500 18,200 15,600 12,400 9,300 
			 1998-99 27,700 25,600 24,200 21,100 18,800 16,100 12,900 9,600 
			 1999-2000 29,000 26,800 25,300 22,100 19,700 16,900 13,500 10,100 
			 2000-01(4) 30,200 27,900 26,400 23,100 20,500 17,700 14,200 10,600 
			  
			 2001-02 33,400 31,100 29,400 26,000 22,900 19,300 15,300 11,600 
			 2002-03 35,000 32,300 30,500 27,000 23,700 20,000 15,900 12,100 
			 2003-04 36,200 33,400 31,600 27,900 24,700 20,700 16,500 12,500 
			 2004-05 37,200 34,300 32,500 28,700 25,400 21,300 17,000 12,900 
			 2005-06 38,300 35,300 33,500 29,500 26,100 21,900 17,500 13,200 
			 2006-07 39,500 36,400 34,500 30,400 26,900 22,600 18,100 13,700 
			 2007-08 40,800 37,600 35,600 31,500 27,800 23,300 18,800 14,500 
			 (1) Estimates of average annual salaries are based on basic pay only and do not include any allowances. They are calculated by multiplying fixed pay level strengths by the corresponding yearly pay rates. As such they will not include the effects of changes to the spread of pay levels within each rank caused by annual increments, promotions, exits and intakes. The figures provided in this table are taken from calculations used for the Military Salaries Index, a copy of which is available in the UK Defence Statistics at Table 2.26. http://www.dasa.mod.uk/natstats/ukds/2007/c2/table226.html Note that UKDS Table 2.26 also includes illustrative rates. These are actual rates corresponding to the pay level populated by the most service personnel of that rank and will therefore differ from the estimates of average rates of pay provided in this answer. (2) An explanation of the relationship between NATO rank codes and UK service ranks is provided on page 3 of TSP9 available at http://www.dasa.mod.uk/natstats/tsp9/tsp9tab4.html (3 )OR1 estimates include personnel on New Entrant rates of pay and personnel on Artificer Apprentices, Probationary Medical and Communications Technicians rates of pay. (4) There is a discontinuity between 2000-01 and 2001-02—signified by the blank row—which is due to the introduction of a new pay system, Pay 2000. The resulting changes to the structure of military salaries meant that the individual pay rates could not be tracked over this period. As such while estimates since 2001-02 are based on strengths by pay level as a 1 May 2005 estimates prior to this will be based on historic pay strengths under the previous pay structure.  Note: All estimates of average annual salary are rounded to the nearest £100.

Armed Forces: Recruitment

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what caps or restrictions have been placed on the recruitment for the  (a) Army,  (b) Navy and  (c) RAF in each year since 2005; and what plans there are for the next financial year.

Bob Ainsworth: Restrictions are placed on military recruiting in terms of the overall manning requirement and quality of the individuals applying. The numbers of recruits required every year are derived from the requirement for trained manpower to sustain the service's delivery of operational capability and the manning structures that support it. In order to assure operational capability, recruits must meet the three service's entry standards.
	
		
			  Services recruitment achievement levels (percentage) 
			   2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08 
			   Target  Intake/  percentage  Target  Intake/  percentage  Target  Intake/  percentage  Target  Intake/  percentage 
			 Naval Service 3,753 3,690 3,933 3,940 4,029 (1)3,770 4,272 (1)3,760 
			  — 98 — 100 — 94 — 88 
			  
			 Army 12,252 11,720 13,402 12,730 13,950 (1)14,300 14,544 (1)14,550 
			  — 96 — 95 — 103 — 100 
			  
			 RAF 2,209 2,180 1,500 1,480 1,887 1,720 3,085 (1)2,510 
			  — 99 — 99 — 91 — 81 
			  
			 All services 18,214 17,590 18,835 18,150 19,866 (1)19,790 21,901 (1)20,830 
			  — 97 — 96 — 100 — 95 
			 (1) Due to ongoing JPA data validation the figures are provisional and subject to review. Therefore the tri-service total is provisional.  Notes: 1. Recruiting target figures provided by single services. Figures for FY 2007-08 show position as at 31 January 2008. 2. All intake from civil life figures have been provided by DASA (Quad-Service)—TSP 1. Numbers have been rounded to nearest 10. Due to the rounding methods used, totals may not equal the sum of the parts.

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the  (a) orders outstanding for,  (b) initial date of announcement for procurement and  (c) expected delivery date are for the (i) Pitbull, (ii) Mastiff, (iii) Bulldog and (iv) Ridgeback armoured vehicles.

Bob Ainsworth: There is no vehicle named Pitbull in UK military service. The hon. Member may be referring to the Mobility Weapon Mount Installation Kit (MWMIK), now to be named Jackal in service with UK armed forces. Of the 130 vehicles in the initial order, some 60 have now been delivered. We have announced our intention to procure a further 72 vehicles, with the full quantity of over 200 vehicles expected to be delivered by the end of the year. We announced our intention to procure the initial order in June 2007.
	We have ordered over 280 Mastiff vehicles, The first tranche has been completely delivered, with 174 remaining to be delivered by mid 2009. The intention to procure the first tranche of Mastiff was announced in July 2006.
	We are converting 900 FV430 vehicles with an upgraded drivetrain to the Mk3, or Bulldog, specification. For operations in Iraq over 100 of these vehicles have been upgraded further (including with additional protection) and this variant has been fully delivered. We announced our intention to procure up-armoured Bulldog in July 2006.
	The intention to procure some 150 Ridgback was announced in December 2007. As contract details have still to be finalised, none have been delivered and schedules have not yet been set.

Colchester

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  if he will make available empty Ministry of Defence residential dwellings in Colchester constituency for  (a) the short-term and  (b) long-term use by (i) Colchester Borough Council and (ii) relevant housing associations; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  what estimate he has made of how much has been received by Annington Estates in  (a) 2007-08 and  (b) the previous 10 years for which figures are available in payments for rent in respect of vacant residential dwellings for military personnel in Colchester constituency.

Derek Twigg: Service family accommodation (SFA) is provided to house service personnel and their dependants, and in England and Wales most SFA is owned by Annington Homes Ltd. (AHL). Surplus properties are returned to that company. In Colchester some unoccupied properties have been used to accommodate single service personnel while new single living accommodation (SLA) blocks are being built. However, as new SLA becomes available the SFA properties are returned to AHL. For instance around 100 properties have been identified for return to AHL in Financial Year 2008-09. For these, among other, reasons we have no current plans to make empty SFA available for non-military use.
	Out of the 1,094 SFA properties at Colchester some 219 are currently void (not in use for their intended purpose). Void stock includes SFA being held for planned moves of service units, or awaiting planned upgrades, sale or release, modernisation or demolition. The Department is taking a number of steps to reduce the amount of void SFA. Since March 2007, the total number of void SFA worldwide has reduced from 13,336 to 12,240 properties.
	Whether SFA is occupied or not, we pay the same rent to AHL, an average of 3,500 per annum per property, It is thus not possible to identify the rent paid to AHL for void properties in this and previous years, as no separate assessment of the cost of void SFA is made.

Departmental Domestic Visits

Phil Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what visits he made to  (a) Harrogate International Centre,  (b) International Conference Centre, Birmingham,  (c) Manchester Central,  (d) Scottish Exhibitional and Conference Centre, Glasgow,  (e) Edinburgh International Conference Centre,  (f) Bournemouth International Conference Centre,  (g) the Brighton Centre, Brighton,  (h) the Riviera Centre, Torquay,  (i) Queen Elizabeth Centre, London,  (j) Excel Conference Centre, Docklands, London, and  (k) Business Design Centre, Islington, London, in the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2007; and what events he attended at each.

Andy Burnham: I have not visited any of the listed venues in a ministerial capacity since my appointment.
	My predecessor, the right hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (James Purnell) visited Manchester Central on 6 and 7 July 2007 to attend the Manchester International Festival and on 19 October 2007 to speak at the Supporters Direct Annual Conference. He also visited the ExCel Conference Centre on 5 August 2007 for the London Triathlon.
	My right hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Tessa Jowell) visited the Business Design Centre on 25 January 2005 to speak at a NESTA Conference, the Queen Elizabeth Centre on 5 March 2005 to speak at the Capital Woman 2005 Conference and on 16 March 2005 to speak at the Tourism UK 2005 Conference. On 27 and 28 August 2005, she attended the Edinburgh International Conference Centre for the Edinburgh TV Festival. She also visited the International Conference Centre, Birmingham on 8 November 2005 and spoke at the EU Gender Equality Conference. On 23 November 2005, she spoke at the Thames Gateway Conference at the Excel Conference Centre.
	During 2006, on 23 October she spoke at the Museum Association Conference at the Bournemouth International Conference Centre and on 23 November at the Thames Gateway Forum at the Excel Conference Centre.
	On 18 June 2007, she spoke at the Emergency Planning Society Annual Conference at the Riviera Centre, Torquay and on 25 June 2007 at the International Conference Centre, Birmingham with regional stakeholders about the 2012 Olympics.

Sports: Expenditure

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department has spent on the  (a) Sporting and  (b) Cultural Champions initiatives since each was established.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Sport England's current available records indicate that they have allocated the following amounts to the Sporting Champions programme since 2001-02.
	
		
			   £ 
			 2001-02 297,737 
			 2002-03 338,714 
			 2003-04 329,737 
			 2004-05 336,026 
			 2005-06 300,000 
			 2006-07 300,000 
			 2007-08 300,000 
		
	
	DCMS does not fund a "Cultural Champions" programme but we do fund a mentoring programme, which use mentors from sport, music and the media to help young people that are at risk of social exclusion engage with positive activities and make positive life choices. DCMS has allocated 1 million per year to this programme since it was established in 2006-07.

Departmental Pay

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when the last equal pay review was completed, in line the Equality Opportunities Commission guidance, for  (a) her Department's headquarters,  (b) each of its executive agencies and  (c) her Department's Government offices; when those equal pay reviews were made available to the recognised trades unions of each of her Department's bargaining units; and if she will place in the Library each of those reviews.

Parmjit Dhanda: holding answer 13 March 2008
	The information requested is as follows:
	 DCLG (HQ)
	The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) was created on 5 May 2006, inheriting functions and employees, under Machinery of Government changes, previously the responsibility of the Office of Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), the Home Office (Communities Group) and the DTI (Women and Responsibilities Unit). The last equal pay review completed was the ODPM 2003 Equal Pay Review. This was made available to the trade unions in April 2003. The 2006-07 Equal Pay Review is due to be completed by June 2008.
	 Government offices
	The last equal pay review for Government offices was carried out in June 2007 and sent to the unions in July 2007. This has been deposited in the Library of the House.
	 The Planning Inspectorate
	PINS' recognised trade unions, PCS and Prospect, participated fully in the Equal Pay Review and the final report was made available to them when it was completed in September 2007 and has been deposited in the Library of the House.
	 The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
	No full equal pay review has been completed for the QEII Conference Centre.
	 Fire Service College
	The Fire Service College undertook an equal pay review in line with Cabinet Office requirements in 2003. The review findings were communicated widely within the College, and were shared with the unions. Unfortunately, due to both significant change in college management and HR structures since 2003, and also various changes in responsibilities for key staff, the college is unable to locate the original report and associated data. However, summaries of the review and the agreed actions were compiled at the time, these have been deposited in the Library of the House.

Planning: Retail Trade

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 10 December 2007,  Official Report, column 149W, on planning: retail trade, when she plans to publish a consultation document on proposals to revise Planning Policy Statement 6.

Iain Wright: holding answer 31 March 2008
	 We intend to take forward our Planning White Paper commitment, to replace the need and impact tests with a new test which has a strong focus on our town centre first policy, and which promotes competition and improves consumer choice, avoiding the unintended effects of the current need test. We will consult on revisions to Planning Policy Statement 6 shortly.

Group of Eight: AIDS

Richard Caborn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether AIDS-related issues will feature on the agenda for the next G8 meeting; and what progress has been made towards securing the objectives of the treatment for all by the 2010 agreement.

Meg Munn: I refer my right hon. Friend to the reply my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Thomas) gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Griffiths) on 19 March 2008,  Official Report, columns 1183-84W.

Television

Francis Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 6 March 2008,  O fficial  R eport, column 2792W, on television, if he will list each individual internal department in his Department.

Jim Murphy: holding answer 20 March 2008
	A list of internal departments within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on 26 March 2008 is given. The FCO is comprised of directorates and other teams. Departments are listed by directorate. Where a directorate is not divided into departments, or where a team exists outside a directorate, these directorates and teams are listed separately. The organisational structure of the FCO changes and this list reflects the situation on the current date. Asterisks have been used to show where an FCO unit is jointly managed by the FCO and other Whitehall Departments.
	 Africa Directorate
	Africa Department (Equatorial)
	Africa Department (Southern)
	Pan Africa Policy Unit
	Sudan Unit
	 Americas Directorate
	Caribbean, Mexico and Central America Team
	North America Team
	South America Team
	 Asia-Pacific Directorate
	Far Eastern Group
	South East Asia and Pacific Group
	 Communication Directorate
	Internal Communication and Public Relations Group
	Press Office
	Public Diplomacy Group
	 Consular Directorate
	Consular Assistance Group
	Consular Crisis Group
	Passport and Documentary Services Group
	Consular Resources Group
	Consular Strategy, Communications and Training Group
	 Directorate for Defence and Strategic Threats
	Counter Proliferation Department
	Counter Terrorism Department
	Drugs and International Crime Department
	 Europe Directorate
	Europe Delivery Group
	Europe Global Group
	Enlargement South East and Wider Europe Group
	Western Mediterranean Group
	Western Balkans Group
	 FCO Response Centre
	 FCO Services
	 Finance Directorate
	 Global and Economic Issues Directorate
	Climate Change and Energy Group
	Global Economy Group
	Science and Innovation Group
	Sustainable Development and Business Group
	 Human Resources Directorate
	 Information and Technology Directorate
	 International Security Directorate
	Conflict Group
	Human Rights, Democracy and Good Governance Group
	International Organisations Department
	Security Policy Department
	Stabilisation Unit*
	 Legal Advisers
	 Middle East and North Africa Directorate
	Arab Israel and North Africa Group
	Arabian Peninsula Group
	Iran Coordination Group
	Iraq Group
	 Migration Directorate
	 Ministerial Offices
	 Ministerial Support Unit
	 Overseas Territories Directorate
	 Parliamentary Relations Team
	 Permanent Under Secretary's Office
	 Policy Planning Staff
	 Protocol Directorate
	 Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Directorate
	 Security and Estates Directorate
	 South Asia and Afghanistan Directorate
	Afghanistan Group
	Afghanistan Drugs Interdepartmental Unit
	South Asia Group
	 UKvisas*
	 UK Trade and Investment*

Skilled Workers: Voluntary Organisations

Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what assessment his Department has made of the contribution of third sector organisations towards developing the skill set of specific groups, with particular reference to those with learning disabilities.

David Lammy: Third sector organisations have a vital role to play in reaching specific user groups including those with learning difficulties and or disabilities, providing opportunities to learn and train that might not otherwise exist, and supporting the Government's twin aims of economic success and social inclusion for all.
	In 2006-07 the Government invested around £177 million in 2006-07 in post-16 further education and skills provision delivered by 543 voluntary organisations directly contracted with the Learning and Skills Council.
	The Working Together Advisory Group (launched in December 2006) has brought together experts from across the third sector to advise the LSC on how it can work most effectively with third sector providers. The substantial progress that has been made was celebrated at a ministerial reception in January 2008.
	The LSC is continuing to work with the Advisory Group to make sure the third sector's contribution to targets and priorities is recognised and understood, and that third sector organisations are treated equitably with all other providers of services.

Students: Low Incomes

Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's policies to encourage people from low income households to study at university.

Bill Rammell: This Government have instigated and supported a range of policies to encourage a wider range of people to be able and willing to participate in higher education (HE). We have done this because of economic need and to support social justice. Forecasts show that half of the 12 million jobs that should become vacant between 2004 and 2014 will be in occupations most likely to employ graduates. And higher education offers significant benefits to individuals—over their working life, the average graduate can expect to earn comfortably over £100,000 more than a similar person with just A levels, and graduates experience better health, are less likely to commit crime and are more likely to engage in civil society. It is right that these benefits should be available to all, regardless of their background, but the issues affecting HE participation patterns are varied and need to be addressed across the education system.
	In recent years we have made good progress. There has been a steady increase in the number and proportion of entrants to HE who come from lower social class backgrounds. This is reflected in recent UCAS application data for 2008 entry—in England, the proportion of applicants coming from lower social class backgrounds is up from 28.2 per cent. in 2007 to 28.9 per cent. this year. The numbers and proportions of entrants to HE from lower social class backgrounds are at their highest ever levels, as are the numbers and proportions of entrants from state schools and low participation neighbourhoods. Similarly, the proportion of young people from lower social class backgrounds is at it highest level.
	There is a range of interventions which contribute to this progress—the Aimhigher Programme, improvement in student financial support both from the Government and from higher education institution bursaries, institutions own outreach activity working directly with schools and the Government's broader efforts to raise attainment across the board and to narrow attainment gaps.
	The Aimhigher Programme has been operating nationally since 2004 although similar, predecessor programmes began in 2001. The programme is designed to increase opportunities for people from under-represented groups to participate in HE. There have been various evaluations of the programme which show that it has had a positive impact on participants' attainment and their attitudes towards HE. In the programme's early years (2001 to 2002 when it was known as Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge (AH: EC)), and before it became a national programme, research showed that being part of AH: EC:
	(a) led to an improvement in the proportion, by 4.6 per cent., of year nine pupils attaining levels four, five or six in maths at key stage 3;
	(b) involved improvement in nearly all measures of year 11's GCSE results, with an average improvement in total points scored of 2.5, which corresponds to an increase of between two and three grades in one GCSE; and
	(c) led to participants being more likely to say that they intended to take part in HE (by 3.9 percentage points).
	Additional research conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) showed that over 70 per cent. of universities responding to its survey said that Aimhigher as a national programme added value to their widening participation policies and activities, that Aimhigher provided a positive and welcome boost to their own efforts to widen participation in HE and that this translated into increased applications.
	Widening participation requires long-term address and we have announced the continuation of Aimhigher to 2011. We will continue to work with HEFCE to commission a national study to report before the end of 2011 on outcomes across the whole programme since 2004, when the unified, national Aimhigher was introduced. And at local level, Aimhigher Partnerships will determine the extent to which the Aimhigher programme has raised HE awareness, aspirations and attainment among participants and within participating institutions.
	There is less accumulated evidence about the effectiveness of other interventions given that they were introduced relatively recently. But we do know that the Office for Fair Access, which agrees access agreements with HEIs, showing what they will do to attract students from lower-income backgrounds, reported that in the first operational year of access agreements, 2006-07:
	(a) HEIs paid £96 million to low income students in bursaries in 2006-07 (21.4 per cent. of additional income went back to students in support), benefiting well over 70,000 low income students;
	(b) for those on the lowest incomes (entitled to full state grant) the mean bursary was £870. A typical bursary (median and mode) by institution for the lowest income is £1,000 per year;
	(c) £21 million additional income spent on additional outreach in 2006-07; and
	(d) by 2008-09 institutions estimate that they will be disbursing over £300 million a year in bursaries and scholarships to students on low incomes (OFFA definition of low income is family incomes up to £47,425 (2006-07 values).
	We continue to support the work of universities and colleges through the Department's own communications activity and make efforts to raise awareness of bursaries alongside all other elements of the higher education student finance package.

Training

Mark Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many adult and employer responsive training places will be available in the academic year 2010-11.

Bill Rammell: The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Statement of Priorities published on 16 November set out the funding strategy for post-16 further education (FE) and skills for the comprehensive spending review (CSR) period (2008-09 to 2010-11). Total investment on post-16 FE and skills will increase from £11.2 billion in 2007-08 to £12.4 billion in 2010-11.
	Annex C to the joint Grant Letter to the LSC from my Department and Department for Children, Schools and Families provides a breakdown of the number of funded places by programme. This is reproduced here and is also available at:
	http://www.dius.gov.uk/publications.html.
	It shows that in 2010-11 a total of 2.5 million adult learner places will be funded through the adult learner and employer responsive models. In line with the national roll-out of level 3 provision delivered through Train to Gain set out in 'Train to Gain: A Plan for Growth (November 2007)', the number of funded adult learners on full level 3 provision significantly increases between 2009-10 and 2010-11 (from 144,000 to 356,000). This increase reflects the higher level skills challenge set out by Lord Leitch. It more than offsets the planned reductions in funded non-accredited and non-priority learning places in 2010-11 resulting in an overall increase in funded adult learner places
	compared with 2009-10.
	Taking into account all adult learners funded by the LSC, not just those on provision funded through the adult learner and employer learner responsive models, on average over three million adult learners will be funded each year over the CSR period.
	
		
			  Planned outputs/volumes (academic year) 
			   Academic years 
			  Budget line  2008-09  2009-10  2010-11 
			   Learner numbers 
			 Youth Participation
			 of which for planning purposes:
			 School Sixth Forms 376,000 370,000 364,000 
			 16-19 FE 773,000 773,000 773,000 
			 16-18 Apprenticeships 240,000 260,000 281,000 
			 Entry to Employment 70,000 70,000 70,000 
			 Total Youth Participation 1,460,000 1,473,000 1,488,000 
			 Academies 16,000 22,000 28,000 
			 
			 Adult Learner Responsive
			 FE19+ 1,372,000 1,127,000 1,154,000 
			 Ufl/learndirect 204,000 179,000 152,000 
			 Employability Learning 24,000 29,000 37,000 
			 Adult Learner Responsive sub total 1,600,000 1,335,000 1,343,000 
			 of which for planning purposes:
			 Foundation Learning Tier 368,000 372,000 374,000 
			 Skills for Life 923,000 914,000 904,000 
			 Full Level 2 133,000 143,000 161,000 
			 Full Level 3 137,000 157,000 165,000 
			 Developmental Learning 497,000 216,000 116,000 
			 
			 Employer Responsive
			 Employer based NVQs 185,000 196,000 216,000 
			 Apprenticeships/Workbased Learning 114,000 124,000 126,000 
			 Train to Gain 600,000 638,000 872,000 
			 Employer Responsive sub total 899,000 958,000 1,214,000 
			 of which for planning purposes:
			 Foundation Learning Tier 10,000 10,000 10,000 
			 Skills for Life 304,000 313,000 323,000 
			 Full Level 2 (Excluding Apprenticeships) 603,000 637,000 664,000 
			 Full Level 3 (Excluding Apprenticeships) 136,000 144,000 356,000 
			 Apprenticeships 113,000 123,000 125,000 
			 Developmental Learning 11,000 3,000 0 
			 
			 Safeguarded Learning 630,000 605,000 585,000 
			 Total Adult and Employer Responsive 2,499,000 2,293,000 2,557,000 
		
	
	
		
			  Key PSA related outputs 
			   2008-09  2009-10  2010-11 
			 Skills for Life—achievements counting towards the literacy level 1 target and the numeracy entry level 3 target 349,000 368,000 387,000 
			 First full level 2 Adult Achievements (All) 346,000 388,000 412,000 
			 First full level 3 115,000 168,000 213,000 
			 16-18 Apprenticeships Average in Learning 160,000 172,000 183,000 
			 Total Apprenticeship Completions 123,000 134,000 142,000 
			  Notes: 1. Skills for Life volumes when added together will remain constant. There will be issued shortly a consultation document on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). These projections will then be remodelled. 2. Youth Participation figures exclude those delivered through specialist colleges with learners with learning disabilities and or difficulties. 3. Funding of academies is not routed through the LSC, so academy volumes are not included in the Youth Participation total. However Academies volumes do contribute to overall participation. 4. Component learner numbers and achievements presented are not cumulative. For example; a learner may undertake an apprenticeship programme of study that incorporates the successful achievements of both a Skills for Life literacy and numeracy qualification. 5. Developmental learning is defined as below level 2 learning outside the national qualifications framework, and learning above level 3. Figures are indicative and subject to further modelling. Activity associated with developmental learning will form part of the consultation the Secretary of State will launch shortly to help inform our approach to adult learning.

Breast Cancer: Screening

Stephen Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many breast cancer screenings took place in  (a) Jarrow constituency,  (b) South Tyneside,  (c) the North East and  (d) England in each year since 1997.

Ann Keen: The following table shows breast screening coverage in the areas requested. We are unable to identify Jarrow separately. Jarrow constituency is within South Tyneside primary care trust (PCT), for whom information has been provided.
	Coverage is the percentage of eligible women with a breast screening test result in the previous three years.
	
		
			  Breast  screening programme: coverage of  women in  the  t arget  a ge  g roup( 1)  for specified organisations, 31 March 1997 to 2007 
			Women aged 50-64( 1) 
			1997  1998  1999  2000  2001 
			  England   
			  Eligible population (2) 4,025,525 4,158,306 4,226,600 4,319,800 4,373,642 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) 2,641,364 2,761,993 2,861,408 2,993,621 3,070,752 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) 65.6 66.4 67.7 69.3 70.2 
			  of which:   
			  Q30 North East Strategic Health Authority (SHA)  
			  Eligible population (2) 215,212 220,813 223,051 226,260 228,493 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) 151,833 154,187 158,985 167,650 170,887 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) 70.6 69.8 71.3 74.1 74.8 
			  of which:   
			 QDG Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority (HA)  
			  Eligible population (2) 29,889 30,300 30,328 30,668 30,885 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) 21,753 21,267 22,028 22,660 22,754 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) 72.8 70.2 72.6 73.9 73.7 
			
			 5KF Gateshead PCT  
			  Eligible population (2) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			
			 5KG South Tyneside PCT  
			  Eligible population( 2) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
		
	
	
		
			Women aged 53-64( 1) 
			2002  2003  204  2005  2006  2007 
			  England
			  Eligible population (2) 3,472,984 3,519,934 3,538,224 3,574,534 3,633,181 3,690,074 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) 2,636.080 2,649,809 2,651,122 2,697,665 2,756,716 2,805,717 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) 75.9 75.3 74.9 75.5 75.9 76.0 
			  of which:
			  Q30 North East Strategic Health Authority (SHA)   
			  Eligible population (2) 180,539 182,716 183,483 185,454 188,399 191,892 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) 144,531 140,772 135,110 141,025 147,306 152,310 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) 80.1 77.0 73.6 76.0 78.2 76.4 
			  of which:
			 QDG Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority (HA)   
			  Eligible population (2) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 
			 5KF Gateshead PCT   
			  Eligible population (2) 14,573 14,525 14,384 14,412 14,523 14,566 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) 11,660 11,741 11,553 11,650 11,700 11,764 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) 80.0 80.8 80.3 80.8 80.6 80.8 
			 
			 5KG South Tyneside PCT   
			  Eligible population( 2) 10,305 10,446 10,468 10,535 10,713 10,977 
			  Women screened (less than 3 years since last test) 8,104 7,962 8,422 8,520 8,586 8,664 
			  Coverage (less than 3 years since last test) (%) 78.6 76.2 80.5 80.9 80.1 78.9 
			 n/a = not available (1) The breast screening programme covers women aged 50-64 but is best assessed using the 53-64 age group as women may be first called at any time between their 50(th) and 53(rd) birthdays. Prior to 2002 data for women aged 50-53 cannot be identified so coverage is presented for women aged 50-64. (2) This is the number of women in the resident population less those with recall ceased for clinical reasons.  Notes: 1. Data prior to 2006 has been estimated to match current SHA boundaries. 2. Data from 2002 to 2006 has been estimated to match current Primary Care Organisation (PCO) boundaries. 3. Jarrow constituency is within South Tyneside PCT, we are unable to identify Jarrow separately. 4. The coverage of the breast screening programme is the proportion of women resident and eligible that have had a test with a recorded result at least once in the previous three years. 5. The breast screening programme was extended to invite women aged 65-70 in April 2001. 6. The last unit began inviting women aged 65-70 in April 2006 and full coverage should be achieved by 2008-09.  Source:  KC63, The Information Centre for health and social care.

Care Homes

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2008,  Official Report, column 1734W on care homes, if he will break down the statistics provided by  (a) region and  (b) local authority.

Ivan Lewis: Information provided by the Commission for Social Care Inspection has been placed in the Library. The information shows the numbers of care homes for older people with scores of 1—standard not met—and 2—standard not met with minor—against each of the National Minimum Standards for the year ending 31 March 2007.

Care Homes: MRSA

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health  
	(1)  what proportion of (a) MRSA and (b) clostridium difficile cases there were in care homes in each of the last five years;
	(2)  how many  (a) recorded incidents of and  (b) deaths attributed to (i) MRSA and (ii) clostridium difficile in (A) care homes and (B) other community settings there were in each of the last five years.

Ann Keen: The information requested is not available however the Health Protection Agency's (HPA) mandatory surveillance scheme provides some limited information for methicillin-resistant  Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections.
	Information on the patient location for  Clostridium difficile surveillance has been collected since April 2007 and aim to publish this later this year.
	Death certificates record the place where a person dies, but not where any infections may have been acquired. It is not possible from the information on a death certificate to know whether an infection was acquired in the care home or other place where a patient died. Patients are often transferred between hospitals, nursing/care homes and other establishments and may acquire infections in a different place from where they died.

Dental Services: Wirral

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on NHS dentistry in Wirral West constituency in each year since 1997.

Ann Keen: The Government's fundamental reform programme for primary dental care services was introduced from 1 April 2006. Primary care trusts (PCTs) were given responsibility for planning and commissioning primary dental services and provided with local, devolved, dental budgets.
	Wirral PCT reported the following expenditure on primary dental care services in 2006-07, the first year of the new service arrangements. This has been set out in the following table. However, data on expenditure by individual parliamentary constituency is not collected centrally.
	
		
			  National health s ervice expenditure on primary dental care services, Wirral PCT, 2006-07 
			  £000 
			 Gross expenditure 20,110 
			 Income from dental charges paid by patients 4,879 
			 Net expenditure 15,231 
			  Note: Resource expenditure, as noted in end year accounts 
		
	
	Prior to April 2006, most primary dental care services were provided under former general dental service (GDS) arrangements. These were demand led services where the pattern of dental expenditure was largely determined by where dentists chose to practice, and how much NHS work they chose to undertake. PCTs were not given fixed funding allocations, except in those areas where personal dental services (PDS) pilots were established to test alternative, local commissioning arrangements and new forms of contract remuneration.
	Local level data on primary dental care expenditure prior to April 2006 is held by the Information Centre for health and social care. Copies of the report 'NHS Expenditure for General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services: England 1997-98 to 2005-06' have been placed in the Library and is also available at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/dentistry/nhs-expenditure-for-general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services:-england-1997-98-2005-06

General Practitioners

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what authorisation is required from a primary care trust in setting up a closed-list GP practice by an employer; whether there are any elements of public funding for such practices; and if he will make a statement.

Ben Bradshaw: Any employer is free to employ a general practitioner (GP) to provide medical services to its staff. Such an arrangement would be a private one between the employer and the GP. No authorisation is required by a primary care trust and no public funding would be available for such an arrangement. Employees would remain free to register with a national health service GP practice in the usual way.

Offenders: Housing

Sally Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the addresses are of the residential institutions run by Clearsprings on behalf of the National Offender Management Service for offenders and ex-offenders.

David Hanson: ClearSprings do not provide hostels or institutions. They provide homes in normal residential accommodation for people who have been bailed by the Courts or released from prison on home detention curfew. It is not our practice to disclose the private addresses of defendants or offenders.

Public Service: Misconduct

Mark Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when the last conviction for misconduct in public office took place; and how many such convictions took place in each of the last 10 years.

Maria Eagle: The available information held by my Department on defendants found guilty of misconduct in public office, from 1996 to 2006, is provided in the following table.
	
		
			  Number of defendants found guilty of misconduct in public office, England and Wales 1996-2006( 1,2) 
			   Found guilty 
			 1996 — 
			 1997 — 
			 1998 — 
			 1999 2 
			 2000 2 
			 2001 1 
			 2002 2 
			 2003 3 
			 2004 10 
			 2005 3 
			 2006 12 
			 (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 
		
	
	Data for 2007 will he available in November 2008.

Secure Training Centres: Restraint Techniques

Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many injuries sustained by juvenile and young adult offenders held in secure training centres during level  (a) 1,  (b) 2 and  (c) 3 physical control in care restraints required hospital treatment in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  how many injuries were sustained by juvenile and young adult offenders held in each secure training centre during level  (a) 1,  (b) 2 and  (c) 3 physical control in care constraints in each year since they were established; and if he will make a statement;
	(3)  how many times level  (a) 1,  (b) 2 and  (c) 3 physical control in care restraints were used in each secure training centre in each year since they were established; and if he will make a statement.

David Hanson: Young adult offenders are not placed in secure training centres or secure children's homes. The restraint techniques known collectively as physical control in care fall into three categories. Phase 1 restraints involve one member of staff only; phase 2, two members of staff; and phase 3, three members of staff.
	The data collected centrally by the Youth Justice Board about use of restraint does not include details of which phase was used. That information could be obtained only by examining the individual incident reports held at each secure training centre, which would involve disproportionate cost.